The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-09
OBITUARY.

Father Samuel Neslen, son of Richard
and Margaret Liffen Neslen, was born at
Milford Bridge in the parish of Oulton'
near LOwestoft, December Sd, 1907. His
parents were Episeopalians, and his father
was an old type English farmer and village
blacksmith. He was apprenticed to the
carpentering and cabinet making business,
at the expiration of which he was engaged
as foreman. On July 18th, 1929, he married
Miss Euuice Francis. who was reared from
childhood Wesleyan Methodist. About
this period, he Ito use his own language
saw the necessity of serving God, and 1denti-
fed himself with the Wesleyan Methodist
Church, became a local preacher IN the
Lowestoft circuit, Jealous advocate and
converter. He established himself ia bust
ness as builder, undertaken and general con-
tractor In the early part of 1S49, he became
interested in the teachings of the Elders of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Accepting the same he was bap-
Norwich, was ordained an Elder and shortly
afterward appointed president of the
Lowestoft branch of the Church. The
meetings were then held in a stable in Rand
Score, a very obscure and uninyiting place
for religious assemblageS. With his char
acteristic zeal he extended his labors and
preached in the adjacent villages and towns
OF ct Yarmouth and Beccels, and became
aoundantly successful in bringing many
converts into the Church In 1850 he built a
chapel for the LatCer-day Saints, in st.
Peters Street, capable of seating 200 or 256
persons. InJanuary, 1858, he sold out seven
houses, large stock of goods, schooner
and all his effects, and accom- panic by his
wife, three sons and six daughters embarked
on the ship G0jc0Rdd for New Orleans;
steamed up the Mississippi to ST. Louis:
staid there six weeks and moved onward to
KeokuF. While journeying through Iowa
he was thrown from horse receiving severe
injuries. He arrived in Salt Lake CITY in
September, 1853 and settled in the Twelfth
He was ordained High Priest the same
year, and commissioned lieutenant of
Silver Crews III the NauvOo Legion in 1854.
He passed through the famine OF 1886. Ia
the general exodus OF the Saints he mOTed
to SpringTille, where he learned of The
death of. his eldest son Samuel, which was a |
severe blow to him, in williamsburg n. Y , |
while returning from a mission with his |
brother Robert. In 1862 he was called on a |
to Gre t Britain, labored in his ma
tive country, and returned in 1854. For many |
years he took an active part as teacher, |
home missionary, ETC., and was always |
spoken of as a faithful, Jealous, consistent |
Latter.dsy Saint and an honest man. He |
breathed his last at 10 a. m. on Monday, |
August 18th, 1887, at the ripe age of 70 years, |
months ard % days. He was the fother of |
eleven children, eight of whom survive him |
His funeral services were conducted at |
the Twentieth Ward meeting house, Elders |
John 7. Game, George B. Wallace. r |
Savage John Sharp, Sen. E snelgrove. |
6 orge Romney, Sen, and B. Young |
officiating His pail bearers were eight of |
his eldest grand ons, preceded by twelve |
Of his younger grandsOns Many of the |
Elders and Saints formerly, in England, will |
remember him kindly for his generous aid, |
and in the emigration of many Saints |
Honor to his name an1 peace to his ashes
Loves oft Journal, Norfolk NelCs and MI |
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